The Carnegie Deli facebook has a gallery of Monday's pickle eating contest won by Gabriel "The Big Jewish Guy" Kassel.
Archive for August, 2009
The Chef One dumpling eating contests have been removed from the Hong Kong Dragon Boat Festival (Queens, NY) schedule. A database update says the contest has been postponed to October.
Sacramento area Hooters will host a wing eating contest over the next month. The finals will take place on September 5 and will award a trip to Hawaii for two and the first qualifier will take place tomorrow at Hooters of Natomas.
The new poll asks what IFOCE top 15 eater will receive the biggest advantage from the dunking ban and the addition of large burgers worth 5 smaller ones in the 2009 Krystal Square Off.
IFOCE.com reports that registration for the September 7 (Labor Day) chili spaghetti eating contest at Kings Island amusement park in Ohio will open tomorrow.
There will be a pizza eating contest at Emo's in Austin, TX on Sunday that will award $350 to the winner.
Man vs. Food August 5 (San Antonio) episode links
TravelChannel.com episode Travel Guide | Slideshow | Adam Richman vlog
- Chunky’s Burgers challenge – spicy Four Horseman burger
Restaurant home page | twitter | citysearch | yelp
Promo video for challenge
MySanAntonio article and blog entry about the filming - Big Lou’s Pizza meal – 42 inch pizza
Restaurant citysearch | yelp | MySanAntonio article
Flickr Gallery and youtube video of the 42 inch pizza - Lulu’s Bakery and Cafe meals – 3.5 pound cinnamon roll and 3 pound chicken fried steak
Restaurant citysearch | yelp
Picture of half of cinnamon rollList of all San Antonio restaurant challenges in the eatfeats database
The Sklar brothers of ESPN Classic's Cheap Seats have produced a sketch for youtube about reacquiring a stolen pair of Lou Gehrig's pants with the assistance of competitive eater "Louis Farra-Cannibal". An image of Sonya Thomas appears in the video.IFOCE.com reports that registration for the Kolache Factory Championship at Minute Maid Park in Houston on September 4 will open tomorrow and the purse will be $10,000.
NWTimes has a profile of Pat Bertoletti containing a report on Saturday's Pepe's Taco Eating Contest at Balmoral Park.
Joey Chestnut has posted an entry to his Yardbarker blog about winning Nathan's for the third year in a row. The San Jose Mercury also has an article about Joey Chestnut participating in the Tour de French Fry on Sunday.
Tim "Eater X" Janus did an interview for the New York Times business section on how new airport security regulations have made travel for competitive eaters more difficult.
A video of a bearded Pat Bertoletti completing a 12 pound pizza challenge with a teammate at an unnamed restaurant in Detroit has been uploaded to his yardbarker page. The challenge took place on June 20 when Bertoletti did the Jimmy John's makers vs. eaters event in Detroit, which is available in Pat Bertoletti's yardbarker videos. Youtube also has a Saturday's taco contest in its entirety.
The URL for the new Krystal Square Off twitter is http://twitter.com/ksquareoff. Krystal qualifier registration will open tomorrow at noon eastern on KrystalSquareOff.com
The Carnegie Deli has started a twitter at http://twitter.com/CarnegieDeli if you want results from today's pickle contest. update Here's a picture from the "Bob Uecker" seats
(via Darren Rovell twitter) WZZM has an article and video about the Galley restaurant in Wyoming, Michigan (Grand Rapids area) starting a three foot long Coney dog challenge.
Lucrative Washington state eating challenges past & present
Big Al’s in Vancouver, WA (north Portland, OR area) has a 10 pound burger challenge that will award a 46 inch TV, a Sony home theater surround sound system and a Sony Play Station 3 to a diner who completes it. It is not clear if the prize package will be awarded to the first finisher, the fastest finisher or if all finishers will be entered into a lottery.
One of the largest previous eating challenge payouts also occurred in Washington State. The Google News archive has a column about Mandy Brown, a school bus driver weighing 125 pounds, being the first to complete a meal billed as the world’s largest chicken fried steak at Thudpucker’s restaurant in Spokane in 1992. There were 850 previous unsuccessful attempts at the challenge before Ms. Brown finished it in 84 minutes and she received a prize of $1,200.
"Furious" Pete Czerwinski has started a bodybuilding.com thread about his two record-breaking victories (Jake's Burgers & Dani's Pizza) this weekend. The thread has pictures which display Pete's new hair dye job. (Kobayashi is the only other competitive eater to change his hair color for a contest I am aware of.)
Andrew Lane has a blog entry about becoming the first customer of Cactus Jack's Saloon and Grill to complete their "Bust it Big" burger challenge. "A-Bomb" received a shot of Patron Silver for completing the challenge.
A craigslist posting requests female competitors for on-radio eating contests in Portland, Oregon. The winner will receive $20.
(From Alex Thomas email) Richmond, VA area Buffalo Wild Wings will host wing eating qualifiers on August 1, 8, 15 & 22. Winners of the qualifiers will receive $250 and will be able to compete in the finals on August 29 that will award $1000 to the winner.
Mike Fitzgerald won his third straight victory at Sheboygan Brat Days yesterday after running a marathon earlier in the day. update Sheboygan Press has an article and video
Sound on the Sound has a report on Billy "The Fridge" repeating as champion at Top Pot's doughnut eating contest in Seattle.
Balmoral Park Pepe’s taco results
Pat Bertoletti’s twitter has the top 4 from this evening’s taco eating contest at Balmoral Park race track:
1 Pat Bertoletti 33 tacos
2 Tim Brown 28
3 Erik Denmark 25
4 Nate Biller 19
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